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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (37782)	9/14/2010 3:49:49 PM
From: John	Respond to of 103300

He's not alone. Many people see the data and immediately begin making an effort to discredit it with charges of racism, or accusations of racial bias, or assertions of selective discrimination based on skin color, and so forth. One must ask, is there really a global conspiracy to discriminate against people who happen to have black skin? I hardly think so. What sane person would? In any case involving the use of statistical data and explanatory variables, correlation does not prove causality, but correlation does lend support to the efforts that are made to ultimately prove causality. Many people often forget that second part. Lest we forget the old adage, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and behaves like a duck... -g-